Running-gear for vehicles



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RUNNING GEAE POE VEHICLES. No. 252,886. Patented Jan. 31,1882.

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HORACE A. LOGAN AND FRANCIS R. WRIGHT, OF LATHROP, MISSOURI.

RUNNING-GEAR FOR VEHICLES.

` SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 252,856, dated January 31, 1882.

Application filed November 28, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Beit known that we, HouAcn A. LOGAN and FRANCIS R. WRIGHT, citizens of the United States, residing at Lathrop, in the county of Clinton and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements iu Running-Gears for Wagons; and we do hereby declare that the following is a. t'ull, clear, and exact descriptionof the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, and to the letters and tigures of reference marked thereon.

Figure l ot' the drawings is an under side plan view of our invention; Fig. A2, an end view thereof, and Fig. 3 a sectional elevation taken on line m x of Fig. 2.

rlhe present invention has relation to certain new aud valuable improvements in the running-gear for wagons or other vehicles; and it consists in the Adetails of construction. as shown in the drawings and hereinafter described.

In the accompau yin g drawings, A represents a wagon-body, to which is connected the usual frame, B, having the fifth-wheel C suitably fastened to the upper side.

'Io the under side ofthe body A is bolted or otherwise connected a rod, D, said rod having forked ends a, which are flattened to enable them to be irmly secured to the Wagon-body. Other means, however, may be employed for attaching the rod D, which lies horizontally or parallel with the body A. The frame B passes over the end of a king-bolt, b, and is held thereon by a screw-nut, c, engaging with the screwthreaded end of said bolt, the frame moving horizontally in either direction to the right or left. The king-bolt b is formed at its upper end with a bifurca'ted head, d, which embraces a lug, e, depending from the under side ot the wagon-body A. rEhe forward end ot' the rod D is supported by a yoke,f, bolted or otherwise secured to the under side of the Wagonbody, said rod extending beyond the yoke and passing through an eye or loop, g, projecting from a segmental bearing-plate,E. This bearin g-plate E is formed with guides h, which embrace thc outer edge or rim ot the fifth-wheel C. Thus the fifth-wheel is guided in its lateral or sidewise movement. The front end ot the rod D is screw-threaded to receive a screwthreaded nut, z', to retain the eye g, with its bearing-plate, on the rod.

It preferred, the lug c maybe formed with a screw-threaded bolt and attached to the under side of the body A by the bolt passing up through the same and held by a suitable screwnut.

The peculiar construction of the inner end of the rod D, that is forked or bit'urcated and flattened, admits ofthe rod being securely and tirmly attached to the wagon-body, possessing great strength and durability, and resists the strain naturally produced by the oscillating or tilting motion ofthe wagon-body from side to side.

A wagon-gear constructed in accordance with our invention possesses superior strength, is much easier to ride than the wagons of ordinary construction, and less liable to get out of order.

Having now fully described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a wagon-gear, the body A, having connected thereto the horizontalrod D and lug e, in combination with the king-bolt 1),'tit'th-wheel D, and segmental bearing-plate E, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. In a wagon-gear, the body A, having conneeted thereto the rod D, yokef, and lug e, and the bearing-plate E, having eye g, through which the rod passes, in combination with the frame B, fth-whe'el C, and king-bolt b, having head d, all constructed and arranged to operate substantially as and for the purpose specitied.

In testimony that we claim the above we have hereunto subscribed our names in the presence of two witnesses.

HORACE A. LOGAN. FRANCIS R. WRIGHT.

Witnesses:

JAMES A. BURK, STEPHEN M. HUsSEY. 

